The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-06-25
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Coventry, N. Y.
JOAQUIN MILLER has sold his log cabin in
Washington for $1,000
TnR jubilee celebration in Westminster
Abbey will cost R17,OOO
A SAN JOSE (Cal) court fined a man one
Dollar for winking at lady.
PRESSED brick is being made of ashes
and cinders In San Francisco.
THE city Of London police rolls contain
The names Of nearly fourteen thousand
men.
Miss ELLEN K. ABBOTT Is teaching her
seventy-third term Of school Mt Webster,
NH. fDiY
ALL fine luxurious pleasure carriages
are shod with India rubber tires in Eng
land.
FRANK JAMES, the once noted dcsperado,
ts clerking in clothing store at Dallas,
Texas.
CANADA proposes to let all the inmates Of
ner 1ails go free in honor of the Queens
Jubilee. '.
Lilly LANerRY is the reputed owner Of
EDO,0OO worth of New York real estate
mortgages.
A BEAUTIFUL full-length portrait of Queen
'kapiolani has been received at the State
IT ACpdTIlueuU.
MILLIONAIRE FLOOD, of San Francisco,
Enclosed his yard with $4,000 worth of
bronze fence.
The Grant Monument Association, Of
\ New York, is calling for designs for the
proposed structure.
CAMBRIDGE, the seat of Harvard Uni
vcrsity, has 3,623 illiterates out of a total
population of 1852.
The London Times says that there alv
few more handsome coins than the United
States $50 gold piece.
JENNIE WADE, the only resident Of Get-
tysburg killed during the battle is to be
honored with monument.
The number of Confederate battle flags
to be surrendered to the Southern States is
five hundred and forty-fve.
DENNIS KEARNEY, of sand lot notoriety,
II running an intelligence Office for wash
erwomen in San Francisco.
The German authorities have arrested
man in Metz for selling pipes with tho
head OF Boulanger carved upon the bowl.
.EpIToR O'BRIEN will be rendered the
f,-cedom Of the city of Dublin when he ar-
rives at the gates of the great Irish me-
tropolis.
A REVIVAL preacher in Tennessee ad-
dressed his audience as ''two-legged
hogs" and also as ''pusillanimous
skunks.n
The Missouri State Senate has passed a
bill by which only employees of railroads
and preachers may ride on the railroads of
that State on passes.
LAND COMMISSIONER SPARKS saws that
about q, ,0OO, 900 acres will be taken from
do hO
and thrown open to settlement.
THE craze among Boston girls of good
family for so-called art in the nude las
suddenly terminated in the arrest of q
photographer in good standing.
MRS. E. J. UNDERWOOD, of Waynesboro,
Ga., has a fan which she has been using
1or twenty-seven years. 1t yet bears all /
the marks Of strength and durability.
LARGE land owners in Sacramento city |
md county have joined an association and !
agreed to divide up their real estate and |
sell 1t in small lots on reasonable terms.
The West Lebanon (Penn.) Rolling Mill |
Company has shipped Q chain weighing
TWENTY-FIVE tons for use on tive-mast
lake schooner. 1t required two cars to
carry it.
SECRETARY BAYARD proposes to see that |
the expectation of paupers to this country
by foreign Governments is stopped. We |
have more of that class of immigrants now |
than we need.
MEMBER % one Of the most illustrious
families in Austria, Prince Alfred Won |
Wrede, has shocked the nerves of the aris.
tocracy by setting up as q green-grocer
near Vienna.
OF the 1,l65O0O people in Kansas, 173.
OOo are foreign born; 1900 are from Ger.
many, 10000 are from Ireland, 24OOO from
England. OF the native born inhabitants
~, 600 are from Illinois.
The ladies Of Nashville, Tenn, have
formed an association for the purpose of
erecting q monument to the Confederate
dead Of Tennessee Nearly 5000 have
already been subscribed.
PRoF. ToDD, OF Amherst College, has de-
parted for Japan to observe the coming
solar eclipse. He took with him a large
telescope and other apparatus, which he
will set up about hundred miles from
Toxic.
AT an American exhibition in London
there is exhibited a fire-proof and water
proof villa composed entirely of straw
Every part Of it, from the foundations to
the chimneys, is of straw compressed to
form artificial wood.
bRooKLYN has achieved place among
the cities of sweets. Eight hundred thotl-
SAND dollars is annually expended in that
city by candy eaters, and $3.50, 900 of this
sum Is for caramels, which if placed in a
line would reach from Brooklyn to Bos-
ton.
"A NEW theory Of the final destru ction of
Inc earth Is that the polar ice is penetrat-
ing tne interior OF the globe like wedge,
ana tnat as soon as it reaches the fur
mace there will be an explosion that will
split the world into pieces too small for
truck patches.
Ex-VICE-PREsIDENT HANNIBAL. HAMLIN.
who will be seventy-eight in August, as.
sures his friends that he feels like a
healthy man Of fifty and is constantly
counting back under the vague feeling
that mistake has been made in estima.
ling his years.
1t 10 curious coincidence that during
heir respective terms Of ofiice Presidents
Fierce and Buchanan were absent from
Washington the same number of days
namely, ffty-seven.
BRiaADIER GENERAL WESLEY MERR1rr
las been relieved Of the command of the
Vest Point Military Academy, July l, and
assigned TO the command of the Depart
nent OF the Missouri, succeeding Briga-
Wilcox.
THEnE are In Chicago, st the present
tme, between 1900 and 40 900 Bohemians.
vho have all come to America within a
aw years, the great majority since 1870.
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